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Sam- MD-COOK2

Title: Sam- MD-COOK2
Identifier: MD-COOK2
Subject: African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans, Cook
Source: Annapolis Maryland Gazette
Date: October 2, 1783
Trade: Cook
gender: Male
Enslaver: Thomas Rutland
Home: Enslaver's Ship
events: Self-emancipated from Thomas Rutland
Notes: Compiled from Lathan Windley
Transcription: RAN away from THOMAS RUTLAND, Esq; a likely young negro fellow named SAM, about five feet ten or eleven inches high, twenty-one or twenty-two years of age; he is a very bold impertinent fellow: had on when he went away, and took with him, a bearskin waistcoat with sleeves, a white shirt, a pair of striped holland trousers, a black waistcoat and breeches of corded stuff. He is very artful, and has been employed on board Mr. Rutland’s ship for these two or three months past as a cook, and perhaps may offer himself to some gentlemen as such, as he is also a very good house cook. This is to forewarn all captains of vessels and others from shipping said fellow. Whoever takes up and secures said fellow, so that he may be got again, shall be handsomely rewarded by
W.H.M’PHERSON.